- From: David Carlisle <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 23:16:55 +0100 (BST)
- To: michaelm@netsol.com
- CC: xml-uri@w3.org
> A namespace can be an Internet mailbox. Namespaces only have names. A namespace that has name which is the URI of a mailbox is _not_ a mailbox, it is not even necessarily related to a mailbox in any way at all. That is not how namespaces work. > This is actually one of the clearer fundamental axioms of the web: > Everything is a document. It was even one of three things on the > slide at the newcomers orientation at the AC meeting... Call me perverse if you will, but I put more faith in published standards/recommendations than in some slides presented at a meeting to which I wasn't invited. David
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